How To Really Make Sense of Hotelling’s Law

This law tries to explain why fast-food chains are often found close to each other!

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Street Science

6 min readFeb 21, 2022

How To Really Make Sense of Hotelling’s Law — A street with supermarket A placed at 1/4 of the length of the street, and supermarket B placed at 3/4 of the length of the street. Both supermarkets share one half of the total customers on the street. — Image created by the author

Have you ever seen restaurants or fast-food chains spaced very close to each other? In fact, this observation does not restrict itself to just restaurants and fast-food chains. Pharmacies, bakeries, coffee shops, and ice cream parlors are just a few…

How To Really Make Sense of Hotelling’s Law

This law tries to explain why fast-food chains are often found close to each other!

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